Jörn Renzenbrink (born 17 July 1972) is a retired professional
tennis
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player from
Germany
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.
Career
A right hander, Renzenbrink had his best
Grand Slam performance in the
1994 US Open, when he made it into the fourth round. He started his campaign with a straight sets victory over
South Africa
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n
Grant Stafford, followed by a four-sets defeat of
Morocco
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's
Karim Alami
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The right-hander won two career titles in singles, both in 1996 (Atlanta and Palermo), and reached a career-high ATP singles ranking o ...
and then a win over
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Andrea Gaudenzi
Andrea Gaudenzi (; born 30 July 1973) is an Italian former tennis player and the current chairman of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) since January 2020.
Early life
Gaudenzi was born in Faenza, Italy, in the province of Ravenna. He ...
. In the fourth round he met
Jonas Björkman
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and took him to five sets, but lost.
Renzenbrink never won a singles tournament on the
ATP Tour
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but was